1873 in archaeology
# 1873 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1873.

## Excavations

* January; November – George Smith sets out for excavations at Nineveh.

## Explorations

* Antonio García Cubas makes first scholarly description of the ruins of the Toltec capital in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico.
* José Ramos Orihuela discovers the cave paintings in the Painted cave of Galdar ("Cueva Pintada") at Gáldar, Las Palmas, on Gran Canaria.

## Finds

* May 27 - German Classical archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovers "Priam's Treasure" at the presumed site of Troy in Anatolia.
* The Hiddensee treasure, a hoard of pendants and other gold jewellery from the time of Viking ruler Harald Bluetooth, is found on the German island of Hiddensee in the Baltic.
* Bharhut stupa is identified in India by Alexander Cunningham.

## Births

* June 29 - Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist (d. 1938)
* July 28 - John Winter Crowfoot, English educational administrator and archaeologist (d. 1959)
